💰“The consumer intervention process has come under scrutiny due to accusations that Consumer Watchdog, the most prolific ‘consumer advocate,’ uses the intervention process for its own financial gain.” <bit.ly/4jYgtBL>

📜💰 Consumer Watchdog was the only group out of dozens to request compensation for weighing in on catastrophe modeling—demanding $232K in legal fees despite providing “no constructive solutions”. 🚫 @CDINews DENIED their request. <bit.ly/3HPPhXB>

🚨 In a sharp rebuke, @CDINews rejects Consumer Watchdog shakedown attempt to cash in on catastrophe modeling regs, noting “…Consumer Watchdog undertook a calculated campaign of misinformation…to obstruct and undermine the approval” of regulations. <bit.ly/3HPPhXB>

🚨📣 BREAKING: @CDINews blasts Consumer Watchdog for trying to cash in on catastrophe modeling, seeking $232K in legal fees, saying it “offered no constructive solutions” Read more: <bit.ly/3HPPhXB>

🚫DENIED. @CDINews rejects Consumer Watchdog demand for $232K in legal fees to weigh in on catastrophe modeling, saying the advocacy group with zero members “disseminated false assertions” about regulations. Read more: <bit.ly/3HPPhXB>

🚨📢 Truth to power from Ricardo Lara at last week’s #caleg Asm. Insurance hearing: "Consumer Watchdog...carved out power in a decades-old system that rewards gridlock, where being loud has often mattered more than actually being effective"

🚨 "Consumer Watchdog claims to speak for consumers, but their own records publicly show they have no members and only serve themselves," Ricardo Lara told #caleg at last week’s Asm. Insurance hearing.

🚨📢 “Ricardo Lara told #caleg at last week’s Asm. Insurance hearing that Consumer Watchdog plays by 'old rules,' arguing against reforms while the market is crumbling beneath us. And Consumer Watchdog continues to collect millions of dollars in fees without any accountability or public

🚨 NEW from SCNG Opinion: “For insurance markets to work properly, insurers must …not be subject to the arbitrary whims …of so-called consumer advocate organizations like Consumer Watchdog, which have formed their own cottage industry recovering legal fees 💰 when they challenge

🚨BLOCKBUSTER investigative report on Consumer Watchdog and affiliate Consumer Education shows the groups' slush fund spent millions on salaries for founder Harvey Rosenfield & jamie court Jamie Court instead of funds for earthquake victims.  <bit.ly/4nJB4ev>

📜🚨New regulation proposal announced by @CDINew Ricardo Lara will require transparency from intervenors like Consumer Watchdog. "This includes requiring public reporting on intervenor activity and compensation to increase transparency," reports Action News Now <

🚨BREAKING: Capitol Weekly Investigative report unmasks Consumer Watchdog & affiliate Consumer Education Foundation “...the history of CEF suggests the image of Rosenfield and Consumer Watchdog as selfless advocates for consumers is dubious at best." <bit.ly/4pBLFd7 >

🚨An end to Consumer Watchdog monopoly of millions in @CDINews intervenor fees? Proposed regulation from Ricardo Lara "will clarify how intervenor participation is evaluated, ensuring that only significant contributions to the public interest are funded" < bit.ly/4mmJlnn >

🚩💰 Audacity! From Capitol Weekly: "In a May 2000 article in the Orange County Register, then-reporter Daniel Weintraub wrote that Harvey Rosenfield initially thought the $5 million should go to the American Red Cross for future earthquake-disaster relief, then decided, 'the money might

🚨 BREAKING: Ricardo Lara announced proposed regulations that seek to strike at a financial model employed by Consumer Watchdog, the crusading consumer advocacy organization that has long faced criticism over money it makes" < bit.ly/4mmJlnn >

📰 Notes Capitol Weekly: "Like Consumer Watchdog, (sister organization) CEF, has cultivated an anti-corporate image. But in 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported that under Rosenfield’s leadership it owned 150 shares of Enron stock as part of a $4.6 million stock portfolio"

🔎Analysis from Capitol Weekly on new @CDINews intervenor regs: Consumer Watchdog "has netted more than $12.5 million, prompting criticism that Consumer Watchdog has created a system that uniquely benefits itself" < bit.ly/3IoUQgk >

💰 Consumer Watchdog self-serving slush fund revealed by Capitol Weekly. "According to 990 disclosures the nonprofit filed with the Internal Revenue Service, since CEF’s founding it has spent more than 60 percent of all of its money on salary payments to Harvey Rosenfield and grants to

🚨 A heat-seeking missile for publicity, Consumer Watchdog tries to attract media attention by filing an initiative with zero chance of making the ballot. Group with zero members has long history of this practice of failure—even losing campaigns that do make the ballot. #AllHatNoCattle

📰🚨💸 "From 2014 to 2024…Consumer Watchdog has received more than $6.2 million in court-awarded or Insurance Commissioner-awarded fees for Harvey Rosenfield’s work."— fees that are ultimately paid for by consumers < bit.ly/4pBLFd7 >